The ancient Greek religious festival of Anthesteria was revived in the center of the old city in Athens on Sunday.

The National Gallery has acquired After the Audience by the British Dutch-born painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 –1912) for £2 million – the third picture to be secured by the Gallery to mark its ...

Nicknamed 'The Olympian' because of his aloof manner, Pericles brought a new authority and stability to Athenian politics. It was a unique moment in Western history and at the center of it all was ...

Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ever written.

A Reading from Homer by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1885). Philadelphia Museum of Art Homer's Iliad is so canonical in world literature that even without having read the epic, most people are familiar ...

Lust, Gluttony, and Sloth. Three of the Seven Deadly Sins are depicted in Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s The Roses of Heliogabalus.